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EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of Model Free versus Model Intensive Approaches to Sentence Compression
This work introduces a model free approach to sentence compression, which grew out of ideas from Nomoto (2008), and examines how it compares to a state-of-art model intensive appr...
Tadashi Nomoto
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Sentiment Analysis of Conditional Sentences
This paper studies sentiment analysis of conditional sentences. The aim is to determine whether opinions expressed on different topics in a conditional sentence are positive, nega...
Ramanathan Narayanan, Bing Liu, Alok N. Choudhary
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Rich Feature Vector for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction from Multiple Corpora
Because of the importance of proteinprotein interaction (PPI) extraction from text, many corpora have been proposed with slightly differing definitions of proteins and PPI. Since ...
Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-i...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
How well does active learning
Machine involvement has the potential to speed up language documentation. We assess this potential with timed annotation experiments that consider annotator expertise, example sel...
Jason Baldridge, Alexis Palmer
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Graphical Models over Multiple Strings
We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
Markus Dreyer, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Tokenization for Machine Translation
Training a statistical machine translation starts with tokenizing a parallel corpus. Some languages such as Chinese do not incorporate spacing in their writing system, which creat...
Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Cube Pruning as Heuristic Search
Mark Hopkins, Greg Langmead
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Probabilistic Model for Associative Anaphora Resolution
This paper proposes a probabilistic model for associative anaphora resolution in Japanese. Associative anaphora is a type of bridging anaphora, in which the anaphor and its antece...
Ryohei Sasano, Sadao Kurohashi
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Generating High-Coverage Semantic Orientation Lexicons From Overtly Marked Words and a Thesaurus
Sentiment analysis often relies on a semantic orientation lexicon of positive and negative words. A number of approaches have been proposed for creating such lexicons, but they te...
Saif Mohammad, Cody Dunne, Bonnie J. Dorr
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Fast Translation Rule Matching for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation
In a linguistically-motivated syntax-based translation system, the entire translation process is normally carried out in two steps, translation rule matching and target sentence d...
Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Chew Lim Tan